NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 Founders Edition

24 GB. Still fast. Still honest.

Prior-gen flagship, still the honest answer under $2K. 24 GB clears 34B-class locally; pushes you to offload at 70B.

Remix this rig in the arena

Specs

vram gb: 24
compute: Ada sm_89
tdp watts: 450
bandwidth gbps: 1008
cooling: Dual axial

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